Microsoft Office is now incompatible with...Microsoft Office

[Mike Schwartz]

On Jan 4, 2008 2:33 AM, Tuna <tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:

> Dazed_75 wrote:
> > Couple things.  While Vista made number 1 on pcworlds disappointment
> > list, Office 2007 independently made the list (somewhere around #7 I
> > think).  The incompatibility is old news though.  What is new is that
> > MS has added readers/patches to allow users of older Office products
> > (at least 2003, maybe more) to READ the .docx files from Office 2007
> > but not to change them.  Your point remains valid, but OO doesn't
> > solve it either.  Another example of M$ arrogance.
> >
> > BTW, XP SP3 will be including some Vista stuff though I do not know
> > what.  Scary though.
> >
> Didn't they patent the idea of putting spyware into an operating system
> a while back? That could be it...
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> Another example of M$ arrogance

Another reason to use software that stores data in formats
that are defined by true standards (that is, non proprietary).
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org